The Association of Supervisory Staffs, Executives and Technicians (ASSET), was a British

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, chiefly representing

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s in the

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and

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industries. It was formed from the National Foremen's Association, founded in 1918.

History

In 1929 the National Foremen's Association merged with the Amalgamated Managers' and Foremen's Association, which was active in the

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industry. In 1942 the union changed its name to the Association of Supervisory Staff and Engineering Technicians and in 1946 it changed again to the Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians. In 1969 ASSET merged with the AScW (the

Association of Scientific Workers The Association of Scientific Workers (AScW) was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It was founded as the National Union of Scientific Workers in 1918, changing its name to the Association of Scientific Workers in 1927. The union largely rep ...

) to form ASTMS (The

Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs The Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS) was a British trade union which existed between 1969 and 1988. History The ASTMS was created in 1969 when ASSET (the Association of Supervisory Staffs, Executives and Techn ...

). ASSET's final General Secretary was

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Election results

The union sponsored Labour Party candidates at two general elections, and both were elected. Labour Party, ''Report of the Sixty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party'', pp.308-330

General Secretaries

:1918: H. W. ReidDavid Butler, ''Twentieth-Century British Political Facts, 1900-2000'', p.389 :1939: Tom W. Agar :1945: Bob Bretherton :1946: Harry Knight :1960:

References

External links

Catalogue of the ASSET archives
held at the

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